Venturing into the Void Trial 1 · Stormcell

170 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
VENTURING INTO THE VOID TRIAL 1 · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 50 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 19-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 56 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-47.

PART P
CHORUS
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO
8 groovesXAGANABH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venturing into the Void Trial 1?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Venturing into the Void Trial 1 hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Venturing into the Void Trial 1?

7 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 50 more.

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